Call for papers for Fifth annual meeting of ENBIS
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, Wednesday 14th - Friday 16th September, 2005
The fifth Annual ENBIS Conference organised by the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics follows successful meetings in Oslo, Rimini, Barcelona and Copenhagen. The venue will be the prestigious St, James Park Newcastle United Football Ground Conference Suite
Newcastle is the major city in northeast England. Transport links by air, rail, road and sea are excellent and the area enjoys a rich cultural and industrial heritage. Further information can be found at http://www.newcastle.gov.uk <http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/> and click on 'visit Newcastle'.
ENBIS draws members from a variety of industrial and service areas mainly across Europe in a range of disciplines including biostatistics, data mining, risk analysis, statistical modelling and reliability engineering. Individual membership is free and details of ENBIS and its activities may be seen at http://www.enbis.org.
ENBIS has the following interest groups:
- Data mining/warehousing
- Design of experiments
- Measurement uncertainty
- Non-clinical pharmaceutical
- Operational risk management
- Quality improvement, process modelling and control
- Reliability and Safety
- Statistical consultancy
- Statistical education
- Stochastic modelling
ENBIS5 seeks papers and posters on:
- communications, experiences, and lessons learned
- state of the art reviews for specific sectors or generic application areas
- novel applications and advances in methodology
Sessions topics will include risk management, research methods, reliability and maintenance, six sigma, algebraic statistics and clinical trials. There will be three parallel streams and workshops on data mining, operational risk management and statistical consulting are planned before and after the conference.
The Conference Committee is:
· Ron Kenett (conference chair), KPA Ltd., Israel
· Soren Bisgaard, Professor of Industrial Statistics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Professor of Technology Management, Isenberg School of Management University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
· Shirley Coleman, Technical Director of ISRU, University of Newcastle, UK
· Raffaello Levi, Department of Production Systems and Economics, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
· Poul Thyregod, Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark
· Henry Wynn, Statistics Departmental Convenor, London School of Economics, UK
Abstracts up to 250 words should be submitted online by March 31st 2005 at http://www.enbis.org. There are three formats - 20 minute presentation (including 5 minutes for questions), a poster with 2-3 minute presentation in a special session or workshop. Both presentation forms will have a bibliographic status of "presentation" and prizes will be awarded by the conference sponsors for the best paper in both categories.
Notification of acceptance will be made by email no later than May 31st 2005. The final deadline for submission of the paper or PowerPoint slides, is September 1st 2005 so that they can be included in the conference proceedings. The Programme Committee's decision will be final.
The official language for conference presentations and written materials is English and no translation facilities will be available. PowerPoint slides or a written manuscript will be requested to support oral presentations. A special issue of Quality and Reliability Engineering International (QREI) featuring selected papers from the conference has been scheduled.
Technical Director of ISRU,
Industrial Statistics Research Unit,
University of Newcastle
President of ENBIS
Chair of RSS Quality Improvement Section
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